Volume 29 (2024), Edition 2

The QA procedure and its testing in Nordrhein-Westfalen is described, the likely effects on psychotherapy are presented, and ways of dealing with it are outlined.

While the current discussion on new forms of quality assurance (QA) in outpatient psychotherapy, exemplified by the new german »DeQS«-guidelines, is dominated by issues of outcome quality, a new model is introduced that expands the QA discussion...

This article examines quality management in outpatient psychotherapy from both historical and structural perspectives. It includes a (professional) political contextualization. The profession is encouraged to creatively establish new forms of...

Quality assurance (QA) in outpatient psychotherapy is undergoing significant changes. After the IQTIG (Institute for Quality Assurance and Transparency in Healthcare) was commissioned by the G-BA (Federal Joint Committee) in May 2018, and the...

Background: In the therapy process, there are factors of impact that can promote symptomatic improvements in the patient. In therapy process research there is a transition to a continuous process measurement and differences in perspectives between...

Therapy without diagnosis – Diagnosis without therapy? With thorough research of pathogenically relevant variables, large amounts of data accumulate quickly; if one wants to see their change in therapeutic effort, they multiply according to the...

This article aims to present relevant components of the Behavioral Diagnostic System VDS-J for Adolescents (VDS-J, Verhaltensdiagnostiksystem für Jugendliche, Sulz & Richter-Benedikt, 2001; Richter-Benedikt, 2015a). These specific...

Given the lack of lasting success of psychotherapy, we have to expect that a patient will come back after a few to many years because they are ill again and urgently request psychotherapy. We can and must then ask ourselves what should have happened...

This article is based on a lecture held on the occasion of a meeting for the 40th anniversary of the psychotherapy and psychoanalysis training circle for doctors and psychological therapists in Munich in January 2024. The topic of the meeting was:...

Stephen Porges’s polyvagal theory proposes to integrate various scientific disciplines such as anatomy, physiology, psychophysiology, evolutionary and developmental biology, social sciences and psychotherapy together with special evolutionary...